Ana Rotter is a microbiologist and statistician. She leads the first marine biotechnology-specialized research team in the region with the mission to create novel value chains from waste biomass, microalgal and bacterial biotechnology. She leads Ocean4Biotech, association of international marine biotechnologists.

She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmacy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Her research interests focus on the isolation, structure elucidation and biological activity evaluation of natural products from marine macro- and microorganisms. More

Fernando Reyes leads the Natural Products Chemistry Department at Fundación MEDINA in Spain. His research is focused on the discovery of new bioactive natural products and the development of new strategies for the separation and analysis complex natural product mixtures. More.

Filipa A. Vicente is a Research Assistant Professor and the group leader for Process and Product Engineering for Pharmaceutical and Food Industry at the Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering, National Institute of Chemistry (NIC, Ljubljana, Slovenia). Her research is focused on sustainable downstream processes to develop biorefineries & circular economy models to obtain different valuable products.

Maggie Reddy has a PhD in Marine Biology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is a seaweed taxonomist interested in marine biodiveristy and biodiscovery research. In general, her research involves applying integrative taxonomy which involves morphology, DNA and (bio)chemistry to study marine organisms with potential application in biotechnology. More.

He finished his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry in 2002 and is now Professor in Marine Biodiscovery at NUI Galway in 2015, leading a research team that focuses on marine natural products. The group has a strong expertise in the purification by HPLC and structure elucidation by NMR and MS. Their work is focused from marine ecology to applications in the pharmaceutical, cosmetical or agri-food sectors. More.

Vassilios Roussis is the Director of the Laboratory of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products, Dept. of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His expertise is in marine natural products chemistry and biomedical applications of marine polysaccharides. More.